JP2915225B2 - Document creation device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus for displaying a document input by a predetermined means on an output device such as a printer or a display.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional document creation apparatus, first, a user inputs a document to be drawn using a text editor, a personal computer, or DTP (Desktop Publishing) software on a workstation. At that time, for the character string portion in the document, the user can
Specify the font size, etc. The created document is
There is a variety of types, from a simple list of character string codes, to a description in a typesetting language, and further to a description in a page description language. Generally, these document data are actually rendered on an output device such as a printer or a display after performing data format conversion several times.

[0003] Among these document drawings, for the character string portion, a font specified by the user or a font of a size or a font set in advance in the apparatus itself is changed for each character according to the font and size. They simply draw and arrange them while shifting the position by the determined character width. When the created document is in a typesetting language, forbidden processing and line ending may be performed, but the typeface, character size, character spacing, and the like are drawn as specified by the user.

[0004]

However, in a conventional document creation apparatus, in the case of a so-called solid writing language such as Japanese or Chinese, all characters except for punctuation are displayed at uniform character intervals. As a result, the breaks between words and phrases are difficult to understand, which makes the rendered document very difficult to read and understand.

[0005] The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem, and has as its object to provide a document creating apparatus capable of displaying a document in a format that is easier to read than in the past.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to achieve the above-mentioned object, and analyzes a character string inputted by a predetermined means, and converts language data obtained by this analysis into a character string. A language analysis unit to assign to each word, a data dictionary storing drawing information of a font, a character size, and a character interval corresponding to a specific word, and a font, a character size, and a character corresponding to a word other than a specific word Draw information of intervals is stored in advance
And a database headed by linguistic data ,
A drawing data creation unit, wherein the drawing data creation unit
A search is performed to determine whether a word in the character string output from the language analysis unit is present in the data dictionary, and for each word in the character string present in the data dictionary, The drawing information of the character size and character spacing is reflected in the format for document creation, and words in the character string that did not exist in the data dictionary are stored in the database based on the language data given by the language analysis unit. The document creation device is configured to search for and to draw the typeface, character size, and character spacing drawing information corresponding to each word in the format.

[0007]

In the document creation apparatus of the present invention, a character string input by a predetermined means is analyzed by a language analysis unit, and language data obtained by this analysis is added to each word in the character string. Words in the character string output from the language analysis unit are searched in the data dictionary by the operation function of the drawing data creation unit. Furthermore, for the words in the character string existing in the data dictionary, the drawing information of the corresponding typeface, character size and character spacing is reflected in the format for document creation by the operation function of the drawing data creation unit, Words in the character string that did not exist in the dictionary are searched in the database based on the language data, and the typeface, character size, and character spacing drawing information corresponding to each word are reflected in the format. .

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining an embodiment of a document creation apparatus according to the present invention. In the figure, 1 is document data, 2 is a document data analysis unit, 3 is a page description data generation unit, 4 is page description data, and 5 is a drawing processing unit. Document data 1 which is input by calling predetermined means, for example, a keyboard operation by an operator or a storage device in which document data is stored in advance, is passed to a document data analysis unit 2, where the input document data 1 is sent. Is analyzed for the contents of

Subsequently, the document data 1 is formatted in accordance with the content of the document data, for example, a character string, a mathematical expression, a graphic, or the like, and the formatted document data is passed to the next page description data generating unit 3. The page description data generation unit 3 performs a typesetting process and a prohibition process to create page description data 4. Then, the created page description data 4 is processed by the drawing processing unit 5 and displayed on an output device 6 such as a printer or a display.

In this embodiment, in addition to the basic configuration of such a document creation device, a language analysis unit 7, a drawing data creation unit 8, a data dictionary 9, and a database 10 are provided. First, the language analysis unit 7 analyzes a character string (sentence) input by a predetermined means, and adds language data (described later) obtained by the analysis to each word in the character string. The drawing data creation unit 8 is for creating drawing data via the data dictionary 9 and the database 10. The data dictionary 9 stores a font corresponding to a specific word, character size, and drawing information of character spacing. One database 10 stores a font corresponding to a word other than the specific word, a character size, and the like. The drawing information of the character interval is stored.

More specifically, the language analyzer 7 analyzes the input character string for each word, and obtains character type information, morpheme information, and syntax information of the character string (sentence) obtained by the analysis. Etc. are given as language data to each word in the character string. The data dictionary 9 stores a specific word itself as a headword, and further stores, for each headword, drawing information of a typeface, a character size, and a character interval. On the other hand, the database 10 first stores, for words other than the specific word, drawing information of the typeface, character size, and character spacing corresponding to each word in the language data, for example, with morpheme information (part of speech) as a heading. In addition to this, the database 10 stores, for example, drawing information of character intervals corresponding to each word with syntax information as a heading in the language data.

In this example, it is assumed that the drawing information of the font, the character size, and the character interval are set as follows. First,
As for the typeface, an emphasis typeface is prepared for the set typeface. This is, for example, a medium Gothic for Mincho, a thick Gothic for medium Gothic, and the like. Those that are to be emphasized fonts are indicated by the symbol (A). Next, for the font size,
Prepare three stages (a, b, c), and the size of each stage is
(A) is (large), (b) is (medium), (c) is (small), and the character size ratio is (a: b: c) = (10: 9:
8). Here, it is assumed that (a) is equal to the size set by the user. In addition, the character spacing indicates an extra space than the normal character spacing, and it is assumed that the space is divided into two stages (i, j). This means, for example, if the character width is fixed for all characters,
It is assumed that (i) has a length of 1/5 and (j) has a length of 1/3.

Next, the operation function of the document creating apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described. Here, in this embodiment, the following ""
An operation function for processing a character string (sentence) indicated by "" will be described. "For example, a computer generally describes physical properties, but there are few problems if that is the only description." First, a character string is drawn in the document data 1 sent to the document data analysis unit 2. When there is a command, a character string corresponding to the command is passed to the language analysis unit 7. The language analysis unit 7 analyzes the character string received from the document data analysis unit 2 and adds the language data obtained thereby to each word in the character string. That is, "for example" (declarative adverb) /
"Calculator" (common noun) / "About" (particle equivalent)
/ "Ha" (adjective particle) / "," symbol / "general" (adjective verb) / "ni" (adjective verb ending) / "ha" (adjective particle) /
Analyze the character string in such a manner as to add language data to each word.

Next, the drawing data creation section 8 searches whether or not a word in the character string output from the language analysis section 7 exists in the data dictionary 9. In this case, assuming that "for example" and "computer" are words existing in the data dictionary 9 in the above-described character strings, the corresponding typeface, character size, and character spacing drawing information are used for document creation. Is reflected in the format. That is, drawing information of a font and character size such as (abb) for "for example" and (Aaaa) for "computer" is read out from the data dictionary 9, and the read out drawing information Reflected in the format.

On the other hand, for words in the character string that did not exist in the data dictionary 9, the drawing data creation unit 8 searches the database 10 based on the language data given by the language analysis unit 7, The typeface corresponding to each word, the character size, and the drawing information of the character spacing are reflected in the document creation format. That is, the drawing data creation unit 8 corresponds to particles such as "ha", "no" and "ni" and auxiliary verbs such as "nara" based on language data, for example, morphological information added to words in a character string. The drawing information of (c) is read as the character size for the word, and the drawing information of (b) is read as the character size for words corresponding to pronouns such as "it" and "na", verbs, and hiragana portions of adjectives. The drawing information is read out and reflected in the format. Further, the drawing data creating unit 8 may be configured to “provide an interval corresponding to (j) between an adverb and a noun” or “behind, based on language data assigned to a word in a character string, for example, syntax information. A spacing equivalent to (j) is provided after a repeated qualifier beyond a phrase that does not include a period ", and drawing information of character spacing is read out according to a prescribed rule such as", and the drawing information is reflected in the format. .

As described above, in the document creating apparatus of the present embodiment, the character string input by the predetermined means is reset on the format based on the drawing information stored in the data dictionary or the database. Page description data generator 3
Passed to. As a result, the character string drawn by the output device 6 is not displayed in a uniform font and character size and character spacing as in the related art, but is appropriate for the font, size and spacing of the characters constituting the text. The change gives natural sentence to the whole sentence, making it possible to create a very readable document. FIG. 2 shows an output result by the document creation apparatus of the present embodiment and an output result by the conventional apparatus.

In the above-described embodiment, the typeface is divided into a normal typeface and an emphasized typeface, the character size is divided into three levels, and the character interval is divided into two levels so as to give a natural strength to the whole sentence. However, this division method can be freely set in consideration of the balance of sentences.
Also, rules for storing drawing information of typeface, character size, and character spacing, for example, particles and auxiliary verbs are drawn in character size (c), or characters equivalent to (j) are between adverbs and nouns. Various rules, such as providing an interval, can be freely set in consideration of the sentence balance in the same manner as described above.

[0018]

As described above, according to the document creating apparatus of the present invention, the typeface of a specific word is changed or the word forming a character string is changed based on drawing information stored in a data dictionary or a database. By providing an appropriate space between words and phrases, and by reducing the specified font size,
It is possible to create a very readable document by adding natural strength to drawn text. This makes it easy for the reader to understand the contents of the sentence, and prevents the contents of the sentence from being inconsistent due to a difference in syntax interpretation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining an embodiment of a document creation apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an output result by a document creation device according to an embodiment and an output result by a conventional device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 7 Language analysis unit 8 Drawing data creation unit 9 Data dictionary 10 Database

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] A language analysis unit that analyzes a character string input by a predetermined means and adds language data obtained by the analysis to each word in the character string; and a typeface corresponding to a specific word. a character size and a data dictionary that drawing information is stored in the character spacing, drawing information of font and character size and character spacing corresponding to a word other than the specific words are stored in advance, and the language de
Search a database for a finding chromatography data, and a drawing data creation unit, the drawing data creation unit determines whether a word in the string that is output from the language analysis unit is present in the data dictionary Then, for each word in the character string existing in the data dictionary, the corresponding typeface, character size, and drawing information of the character interval are reflected in a format for creating a document. For the words in the character string that were not performed, a search was made in the database based on the linguistic data provided by the linguistic analysis unit, and the typeface, character size, and character spacing corresponding to each word were drawn. A document creation device, which reflects information in the format.